Idea for Improving AI to Promote Respectful Communication

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Hey OpenAI,

I hope this message finds you well. I have a suggestion that I believe could enhance the way AI like ChatGPT promotes positive and respectful communication online.

In today’s digital world, respectful interaction can sometimes take a backseat to negative, harmful, or disrespectful content. I believe that AI could play a key role in encouraging more mindful, positive communication. My idea is to develop an algorithm that not only detects overt harmful content (such as hate speech or explicit language) but also more subtle forms of disrespect—like bad sarcasm or passive-aggressive tones—which can undermine healthy discourse.

While freedom of expression is crucial, I think there should be limits when it comes to disrespect. Respectful communication fosters better relationships and encourages positive dialogue. An algorithm that identifies and gently discourages disrespectful language would be a valuable tool to guide users toward more constructive and kind interactions, without limiting genuine free expression.

I program, but I’m still far from being able to code something like this on my own. That said, I’m sharing my ideas with you, knowing you have a talented team capable of implementing this concept far better than I could on my own. I believe that with the right expertise, this could make a big difference in promoting a more respectful online environment.

Thank you for considering this idea. I’m eager to see how AI can continue to evolve in ways that help people communicate with more understanding and respect.

Best regards,

Maria.

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So an AI algorithm that censors speech? Not a fan.

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I never said nothing about censor speech, I think u didn’t understand it good

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I think what @RouseNexus is trying to say is that “enforcing” a friendlier tone is a type of censoring.
You are limiting the AIs way of communicating by enforcing a stylistic choice of generation which makes it sound friendlier to us but in reality is “dumbing down” the AI model.
This has been confirmed - AI models have less accurate answers when being censored - for example when swear words get forbidden etc.
An uncensored model does not mean that it will swear or anything similar, it can only get closer to mimicing the data it was trained on.

Same with an AI that is trained mostly only on “nice” language.

Imagine it like this:
An AI got trained on corporate speech and everything corporate.
→ What if you ask it about the biography of a war criminal?
It probably won’t have trained on any information regarding this question, making it less reliable in comparison to an AI model that has been trained on ALL available data - without any preferences or fine-tuning.

A model that is trained on pretty much everything is undeniably going to be smarter in every way as it has more data to be trained on.

I also think that AI being nice and expressing itself in a respectful manner is a priority, however, how much are we willing to give up performance wise?

OpenAI has found a very good solution and I think it is fine the way it is. :hugs: